Time-lapse Sequence of Jupiter’s North

Striking
atmospheric features in Jupiter’s northern hemisphere are captured in this
series of color-enhanced images from NASA’s Juno spacecraft.

An
anticyclonic white oval, called N5-AWO, can be seen at center left of the first
image (at far left) and appears slightly higher in the second and third images.
A tempest known as the Little Red Spot is visible near the bottom of the second
and third images. The reddish-orange band that is prominently displayed in the
fourth and fifth images is the North North Temperate Belt.

From left to right, this sequence of images was taken
between 9:54 p.m. and 10:11 p.m. PDT on July 15 (12:54 a.m. and 1:11 a.m. EDT
on July 16), as the spacecraft performed its 14th close flyby of Jupiter. At
the time, Juno’s altitude ranged from about 15,700 to 3,900 miles (25,300 to
6,200 kilometers) from the planet's cloud tops, above a latitude of approximately
69 to 36 degrees.

Citizen
scientists Gerald Eichstädt and Seán Doran created this image using data from
the spacecraft’s JunoCam imager.